Photo by Audrey Pavia
Randy with Rio , who ghost his dreams .
My married man Randy turn up in the mean streets of New York City , in a tough Italian - American neighborhood . While kids living in rural residential area were raising Elia for 4 - heat content , Randy was fighting off mugger , crazy people and bullies . He learned to survive with his fists .
tight - forward a few decades subsequently . Randy is now the prime caretaker of our small urban farm . He run to the chickens during the daylight , toss out them scratch line , fetching ballock from the nest box and keeping the coop supplied with food and water . He also manages our three cavalry for me while I ’m at work , take the air them to the community stadium for outfit , cleaning their stalls and filling up their body of water barrels .
It would seem that his life history on our tiny 1/2 - Accho urban farm is about as dissimilar from his youth in Manhattan as it gets . Apparently , not so . I found this out the hard path the other Nox .
It was 5:30 a.m. and I was sound asleep when I matt-up a gust to my left oculus . I sat up in bed with my hand covering my face , and holler “ Ouch ! ”
“ Huh ? ” come a sleepy mumble from my husband beside me . “ What happened ? ”
“ You just bash me in the middle ! ” I tell him as I got out of bed and swag to the privy mirror to see out the damage .
“ I was having a nightmare , ” he said . “ I was fiddle basketball at Madison Square Garden , and there were horses on the court . One of them started guarding me , and he tried to bite me . So I punched him . ”
I at once opine of howRio , our 2 - twelvemonth - old gelding , is incessantly swing his mouth around in play , dissemble as if he is run to bite . Since Randy spends the most meter with Rio , he spends a deal of time dodging these phantom bite . Apparently , Rio ’s behavior is affecting Randy ’s sleep .
My shock at waking up with a punch to the centre was soon replaced with hysteric laughter after hear about this dream . As I sat double over on the edge of bed wiping tear from my cheeks , I could n’t help oneself but think how much Rio the comedian would appreciate this story if only he could understand .
The next daybreak , my eye had a red target under it where Randy ’s deal had landed in its pursuit of the fouling equid . I still think it was pretty funny , and could n’t wait to get to the berth and tell my co - doer the floor of how my married man popped me in the centre .
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